AS Monaco surpass Barça...

791 minutes of football, not a single goal conceded. No other side in the five big European leagues (Germany, England, Spain, Italy, France) has done better than AS Monaco this season.

FC Barcelona managed 755 minutes without letting in a goal in the first half of the La Liga season. Against OL, Danijel Subasic and his teammates beat what had until then been the record across all of the "big five" European leagues. In the process, "Suba" passed Stéphane Ruffier, the previous holder of the Ligue 1 record this season with 703 minutes. For 791 minutes in the league, plus another 90 minutes in the UEFA Champions League, the Croatian international has not had to pick the ball out of his net for a grand total of 881 minutes! That 1000 minute milestone is creeping closer...

1241 minutes...

Already the best defence in the UEFA Champions League group stage, AS Monaco once again distinguished themselves defensively on Sunday, despite just missing out on a win over the league leaders. Now unbeaten in 13 matches in all competitions, the Red & Whites have not tasted defeat in over two months. Alexandre Lacazette's extra-time strike in the last 16 of the Coupe de la Ligue remains the only goal Leonardo Jardim's men have conceded in that period. And taking into account regulation time only, AS Monaco have now gone an astonishing 1241 minutes without conceding (including four games with Maarten Stekelenburg in goal, in the Coupe de la Ligue and Coupe de France).